Khaled Ghannam
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office
- 132C Nightingale Hall
Research Focus
Boundary-layer meteorology, land-atmosphere interactions, air quality modeling, hydroclimatology
Education
- PhD, Environmental Sciences, Duke University, 2017
Professional Affiliations
- American Meteorological Society
- American Physical Society
- American Geophysical Union
- European Geophysics Union.
Research Overview
Boundary-layer meteorology, land-atmosphere interactions, air quality modeling, hydroclimatology
Selected Publications
- Yin, Z., Findell, K., Dirmeyer, P., Ghannam, K., Shevliakova, E., Malyshev, S., Tan, Z. (2022) “Daytimeonly-
mean data can enhance understanding of land-atmosphere coupling”. Hydrology and Earth
System Sciences. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-769, 2022 - Chowdhuri, S., Ghannam, K., & Banerjee, T. (2022). A scale-wise analysis of intermittent momentum
transport in dense canopy flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 942, A51. doi:10.1017/jfm.2022.414 - Zahn, E., Bou-Zeid, E., Good, S., Katul, G., Thomas, C., Ghannam, K., Smith, J., Chamecki, M., Dias, N.L.,
Fuentes, J.D., Kustas, W.P. (2022) “Direct Partitioning of Eddy-Covariance Water and Carbon Dioxide
Fluxes into Ground and Plant Components”. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 315, 108790.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108790 - Shevliakova, E., Ghannam, K., Findell, K., Milly, P. C. D., et al. (2022) “The Land Component LM4.1 of
the GFDL Earth System Model ESM4.1: Biophysical and Biogeochemical Processes and Interactions with
Climate”. Journal of Advances in Modeling the Earth System. - Ghannam, K., and Bou-Zeid, E., (2022) “Baroclinicity and directional shear explain departures from the
logarithmic wind profile”. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.1-22.
https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3927
Aug 18, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Khaled Ghannam
Khaled Ghannam joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in August 2023 as an Assistant Professor.